Transcript Let*s Write Some Poetry! - Brookville Local Schools

The
Elements
of Poetry
By Heather Renz www.mrsrenz.net
The
Elements
of Poetry Overview
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Figurative Language
Imagery
Voice
Ideas and Content
Word Choice
By Heather Renz www.mrsrenz.net
Figurative Language
Metaphor – Metaphors combine or
compare two things and show how
they are alike or different.
Examples: He is a giant.
Her eyes were sparklers in the night.
Figurative Language
Personification – A type of metaphor
where human characteristics are given
to non-human things.
Example: The forest spoke to me.
Figurative Language
Simile – Similes are special kinds of
metaphors. Similes use “like” or “as”
to compare things.
Examples: She swims like a fish.
He is sly as a fox.
Figurative Language
Onomatopoeia – The literary technique
of using words that sound like the word.
Examples: Swoosh zing zip sizzle
thump clank bonk
shhhh pow
Figurative Language
Alliteration - The technique of using
words that begin with the same letter.
Example: Five funny firemen found fish.
She eagerly eats enormous eggs.
Figurative Language
Hyperbole - Hyperboles are huge
exaggerations that are obviously not true.
Example: I told you a million times not
to jump on the bed.
Figurative Language
Idiom - Using words or phrases that
could have more than one meaning.
Examples: A penny saved is a penny
earned. ~Benjamin Franklin
It’s a piece of cake.
Imagery
An image is a picture. Good writers
use imagery to paint pictures with
their words in the reader’s mind.
When poems are well written,
your sense of sight, smell, taste, touch,
and hearing are affected. Great writers
choose words that create
imagery in the reader’s mind.
Voice
Poems are meant to be shared and read
out loud. Poems with voice “speak” to
the reader. Poems can rhyme and often
sound like lyrics to a song. Sometimes
alliteration is used to create patterns,
repetition, and rhythm. Poetry can create
feelings that generate
emotion and cause the reader or
listener to feel something.
Ideas & Content
Well written poems have great ideas
and content, just like good books and
make the reader think. The ideas are
important to help express the
main ideas to the reader and
come from the
heart of the writer.
Word Choice
Since poems tend to be shorter in
length, it is important to choose words
for your poems carefully. Use words
that get right to the point and paint a
picture in the reader’s mind.
Haiku poems are a good
example of this since they
are only made up of
17 syllables.
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